Sushant's death-drug trail: Australian discharged

The special court for Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act has discharged Australia national, Paul Bartel, booked in connection with the drug-trail linked to actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death. He has been acquitted for want of evidence.

- Charul Shah Joshi

Special judge Mahesh K Jadhav observed, "As there is no material to prove the factum of actual involvement of the applicant in the commission of the alleged offence, no charge can be framed..." Bartel was booked by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) with the allegation that he was in touch with arrested accused and drug supplier Agisilaos Demetriades, a South African national and brother of actor Arjun Rampal's partner Gabriella Demetriades.